Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977...
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my...
William Manuel “Bill” Johnson was an African American jazz musician, considered the father of the “slap” style of Double bass playing. Johnson who started out playing the guitar and mandolin switching...
Clarence Cameron White (August 10, 1880 – June 30, 1960) was an African-American violinist and composer. Born in...
Whitney Houston, singer and actress, has sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions...
Matthew Alexander Henson was the first African-American Arctic explorer to reach the North Pole in 1909, as part of the Peary Expedition. Over a period of 23 years, Henson and Peary...
[dropcap size=small]R[/dropcap]alph Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize....
Mark Matthews was the oldest of the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. Born on August 7, 1894, he was 111...
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in the Maafa (slavery) to a family...
Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse, who tended to an all-Black army troop named the...
Abbey Lincoln was an African American jazz singer, actor, and civil rights activist. Proclaimed “the last of the...
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond was the Muhammad Ali of his day – quick-witted and fast to react...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
